diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 556d18ed4..0f9c67749 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Version 1.7.0alpha01 [December 15, 2012]
   Rearranged ARM-NEON optimizations to isolate the machine specific code to
     the hardware subdirectory, and add comments to pngrutil.c so that
     implementors of other optimizations will know what to do.
+  Fixed cases of unquoted DESTDIR in Makefile.am.
 
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9dc61daba..ce3642375 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4343,6 +4343,7 @@ Version 1.7.0alpha01 [December 15, 2012]
   Rearranged ARM-NEON optimizations to isolate the machine specific code to
     the hardware subdirectory, and add comments to pngrutil.c so that
     implementors of other optimizations will know what to do.
+  Fixed cases of unquoted DESTDIR in Makefile.am.
 
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diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 98c01ae66..120b643dc 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -237,22 +237,24 @@ dist-hook:
 
 # install the .../include headers as links to the new ones
 install-data-hook:
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(includedir); rm -f png.h pngconf.h pnglibconf.h
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(includedir); $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME)/png.h png.h
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(includedir); $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME)/pngconf.h \
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(includedir)'; rm -f png.h pngconf.h pnglibconf.h
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(includedir)'; $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME)/png.h png.h
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(includedir)'; $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME)/pngconf.h \
 		pngconf.h
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(includedir); $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME)/pnglibconf.h \
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(includedir)'; $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME)/pnglibconf.h \
 		pnglibconf.h
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(pkgconfigdir); rm -f libpng.pc
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(pkgconfigdir); $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME).pc libpng.pc
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(pkgconfigdir)'; rm -f libpng.pc
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(pkgconfigdir)'; $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME).pc libpng.pc
 
 # do evil things to libpng to cause libpng@PNGLIB_MAJOR@@PNGLIB_MINOR@ to be used
 install-exec-hook:
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir); rm -f libpng-config
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir); $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME)-config libpng-config
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)'; rm -f libpng-config
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)';\
+	   $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME)-config libpng-config
 	@set -x;\
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir);\
-	for ext in a la so so.@PNGLIB_MAJOR@@PNGLIB_MINOR@.@PNGLIB_RELEASE@ sl dylib dll.a; do\
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)';\
+	for ext in a la so so.@PNGLIB_MAJOR@@PNGLIB_MINOR@.@PNGLIB_RELEASE@\
+	   sl dylib dll.a; do\
 		rm -f libpng.$$ext;\
                 if test -f $(PNGLIB_BASENAME).$$ext; then\
                        $(LN_S) $(PNGLIB_BASENAME).$$ext libpng.$$ext;\
@@ -260,9 +262,9 @@ install-exec-hook:
 	done
 
 uninstall-hook:
-	cd $(DESTDIR)$(includedir); rm -f png.h pngconf.h pnglibconf.h
-	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(pkgconfigdir)/libpng.pc
-	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/libpng-config
-	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpng.a
-	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpng.la
-	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpng.dll.a
+	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(includedir)'; rm -f png.h pngconf.h pnglibconf.h
+	rm -f '$(DESTDIR)$(pkgconfigdir)/libpng.pc'
+	rm -f '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/libpng-config'
+	rm -f '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpng.a'
+	rm -f '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpng.la'
+	rm -f '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpng.dll.a'